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Install: claude install-skill vanducng/skills
# Alter
Alter is a native macOS AI assistant: actions, dictation, meeting recording and
transcription, with local model support. Official docs are at
`https://docs.alterhq.com`. This skill uses the preferences file for narrowly
scoped hotkey work and the GUI for everything else.
## Privacy boundary, read this first
Alter records meetings and stores transcripts and conversation history locally.
Some of that content sits in the **same preferences plist as the hotkeys**, not
only in its databases.
Never dump the whole plist. A bare `defaults read com.wearedevx.alter` or a
broad `plutil -p` can splash an entire meeting transcript into the transcript of
your own session, including names and whatever the meeting was about.
- Read **named keys only**, never the whole domain.
- Never open `Alter.sqlite`, `Search.sqlite`, or anything under the transcripts
directory.
- Never quote, summarize, or store what you see if it leaks anyway. Say that it
leaked and move on.
- If the user wants transcript content, tell them to export it from the app.
This is the one hard rule in this skill. Everything below respects it.
## Where things live
| What | Path |
| --- | --- |
| Hotkeys and settings | `$HOME/Library/Preferences/com.wearedevx.alter.plist` |
| Actions, history, transcripts | `$HOME/Library/Application Support/Alter/` |
| Application | `/Applications/Alter.app` |
Hotkeys are the only part of that plist this skill touches.
## Hotkey encoding
Every binding is a JSON **string*